Carton-capping machine.



G. W. BEADLE.

CARTON GAPPING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV 9, 1912 Patented Jan. 19, 1915. 3 SHEET HEET 1.

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CARTON GAPPING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 9, 1912.

G. W. BEADLE. CARTON GAPPING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.9, 1912.

Patented Jan. 19, 1915.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'. GEORGE W. BEAJJLE, OF BAYONNE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO SINGLE SERVICE PACK- AGE CORPORATION OF AMERICA, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,' A CORPORATION NEW JERSEY.

CARTON-CAPPING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 19, 1915.

Application filed November 9, 1912. Serial No. 730,508.

' To all whom it inay concern Be it known that I, GEORGE \V. BEADLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bayonne, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carton- Capping Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to capping'machines especially adapted to close very tightly paper cartons employed for holding milk and other liquids, and has'for its object to produce a machine of this character which will be simple in construction, efficient in action, comparatively inexpensive to manufacture, and one which may be readily operated by hand.

To these ends the invention consists in the novel details of construction and combinations of parts more fully hereinafter disclosed and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which like numerals designate like parts in all the views :Figure 1 is a side elevational view partly in section showing a machine made in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is afront elevational sectional view of the ma- -zine feed plate and the orifice through which the closing disks are'forced into the bottle;

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the plunger disk;

and, Fig. 7 is a sectional plan view of the lower end of the plunger cylinder.

1 indicates any suitable framework on which is mounted the brackets 2 and 3, and 4 indicates the stem of a vertical plunger passing through said brackets and provided at its upper end with the spring 5 for re turning the same. At the lower end, said rod is provided with a cylinder member 6. through which pass the smaller rods 7 provided with the springs 8, and which rods are secured to the cross piece 9 also attached to said rod 4. The cylinder member (3, as best shown in Fig. 4, is provided containing the closing disks 21, which magazine has an opening at the bottom through which passes the feed member 22, which is preferably in the form of a sector-like plate. as best seen in Fig. 3. Said plate is provided with a circular opening 23 of the size of a disk 21, and the solid portion shown, so that when it is moved toward the right, as seen in Fig. 3, a disk will be carried from the magazine '30 to the ring member 15. and the solid portion of said plate will pass under the column of disks 21 and support the same, all in a manner well'known. The said plate 22 is pivoted as at to the platform 14-, and is provided with the .slot 26 and guide pin 27 to facilitate its operation. Suitably mounted upon the rod or stem 4 is an operating handle 30, provided with a hub 31, which handle may be turnedin an angular direction to rotate the stem 4 on its axis as a center, and to thereupon likewise operate the link 32 which is also mounted upon said stem 4, as shown. The link is slotted as at 33. and through said slot passes the pin 34. which is fixed to the plate 22, as will be clear from l igs. land 3. After the handle 30 has been thus rotated to move the plate toward the right, as seen in Fig. 8. the said plate carries a disk 21 with it and delivers the same underneath the plunger disk 10 and over the opening through the ring 15, as will be readily understood. Likewise, secured to the framework 1 is an adjustable bracket 40 preferably provided with 'a clamp -11, and also provided with an opening throughwhich the stem 42 of the bottle rest 4-3 may pass. The said stem 42 is preferably provided with a rack 44 with. which meshes the pinion 45 mounted upon the stud 46 also supported by the said bracket 40, as will be readily understood. Rigid with the stud 46 is the operating handle 47 by which the said stem 42 and 1 bottle rest 43 may be readily moved up and down.

48 represents a suitable guide also attached to the framework 1 against which the bottle may rest when first placed upon the support 43 in its lowered position.

The operation of my machine is as follows :The bottle. rest 43 is normally in a position somewhat lower than that illus trated in the figures, and a paper bottle 50 is quickly placed thereon and rested against the guide 48, whereupon the handle .7 may be lowered by the foot or by hand, which will force the extreme upper edge 51 of the bottle against the beveled inclined surface '18 of the ring 15, and underneath the shoulder 1? thereof. The bottle mouth is thus forced to assume aperfect circle, and therefore, all danger of it not being a true circle and later crushed by the plunger, is avoided. Further, the over-hanging lip 17 of the ring 15 completely protects the extreme edge of the bottle and prevents the said bottle from being crushed when the plunger descends. The disks 21 are made slightly larger than the interior diameter of the bottle mouth, and when brought in position over said mouth, they are received by the beveled inclined surface 16 of the ring 15, as will be readily understood. The disks being in the position just stated, the handle lever 30 is next forced in a downward direction carrying with it the stem 4' and the pivoted pluner member 10. The said plunger member rst strikes the disk near one edge, owing to the said plunger member being inclined, as shown, and tilts the said disk into the position shown in Fig.4. The continued descent of the said plunger member thereupon causes the spring 13 to be compressed and the plunger disk 10 to assume more and more a horizontal position. While thus assuming this horizontal position, the inclined edges of the said disk 10 will gradually force the edges of the disk 21 into place inside the bottle mouth, although said disk 21 may be slightly larger than the bottle mouth, or say one-thirty-second of an inch larger. The bottle is preferably provided with an inwardly extending seat 55, and the parts areso proportioned that the said disk 21 is forced firmly down upon said seat, as in dicated in dotted lines in Fig. 4. It results from this that a disk really larger than the bottle mouth can be forced into a paper bottle, and an unusually tight closure is thus effected. After the bottles have been thus closed, the extreme upper edge 51 may be crimped, over the disk 21 by suitable means, not shown, or said crimping may be omitted as may be desired.

It is obvious that those skilled in the art may vary the arrangement of parts, as well as the details of construction, and therefore I do not wish to be limited to the above features except as may be required by the claim.

IVhat I claim is In a capping machine for paper cartons, the combination of a reciprocating plunger provided with means for forcing progressi ely different portions of a closure into a carton mouth, said means comprising an inclined spring controlled disk; a magazine associated with saidplunger; means to feed closures from said magazine to said plunger; and means for centering a carton mouth under said plunger, comprising a beveled surface and an overhanging protecting lip,

substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

' GEORGE W. BEADLE.

Witnesses:

H. S. Rononns, HENRY B. GAYLny. 

